If you can remember it, you weren't there...

Charlotte and I nipped over to the Lansdown Gallery in Stroud this morning to see a short duration exhibition of posters from the San Francisco Psychedelic Era. It's on only until tomorrow, and you can see another shot by CleanSteve from a couple of days ago, here.  Exhibitor Ranth Patterson collected these posters over many years, but feels now he's ready to sell them on (there were hundreds more, apparently).

It's a shame the light in the Lansdown Hall gave too many reflections, and I had to work with the room as best I could, meaning this corner shot was probably clearest although it doesn't show my favourite posters, by Victor Moscoso. When you consider this mainly lithograph posters were produced before DTP software and generally within days of events, only to be almost instantly replaced by the next weeks gig, the care with which they were drawn is tremendous.

I remember, as a child of the sixties but who went to school in the seventies, how we all used to draw and paint on our school haversack flaps, and in the margins of our books, using the ubiquitous distorted rectangle font of these Philmore posters. If you are near Stroud tomorrow, stop by, tune in and drop out, man.